We’ve heard that true love waits. But, c’mon now, seven decades? Well, I guess it makes sense if that’s how long it takes your state to come around and pass same-sex marriage legislation.
Rolling up to the altar in their wheelchairs, 90-year-old Alice “Nonie” Dubes and 91-year-old Vivian Doyack were married at the First Christian Church in Davenport, Iowa, this weekend after living together for 72 years.
“This is a celebration of something that should have happened a very long time ago,” the Reverend Linda Hunsaker told the intimate group of close friends and family who attended the ceremony to celebrate the couple, who have spent their time together visiting all 50 states and every province in Canada.
“We’ve had a good time,” Dubes said.
According to the Quad City Times, the couple met in the town they grew up in, Yale, Iowa, and moved to Davenport in 1947, where Boyack was a long-time elementary school teacher and Boyes worked at the local paper and a scrap metal company. Iowa started allowing gay marriage in 2009.
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